Huntsville gazette., 1887-07-30
HUNTSVILLE, ALA, SATURDAY. JULY 80 1887


died of apoplexy at sea on the steamer
Aurania, returning from Europe,
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has decided that commercial travellers are
not privileged class, and that it is not
lawful for railroads to sell them mileage
tickets cheaper than to other persons.
The county of Antrim, Ireland, which
was at first exempt under the proclaim
ing" Of the operation of the Crimes act,
has been included, making coercion uni
versal throughout Ireland.
A DELEGATION of CHur d,Alene Indians
from Idaho, with their CHIEF, Seltice, at
their head, waited on the President on the
10Th, and asked his cooperation in securing
their treaty rights.
THE drivers and helpers employed by the
Mutual Benefit Ice Company of New York,
struck successfully on the 25th for an ad-
vance of wages from SIP and $40 week to
$l5 and $12 a week, respectively.
FIRE broke out on the evening of the
25th in the building Nos. 43 and 40 West
Thirteenth street, New York, in which one
hundred horses were stabbed, and forty
three of them were burned to death. The
building was occupied by the Fleischman
Vienna bakery.
COUNSEL in the famous Deems divorce
case at New York told Justice Allen in the
special term of the Court of Common Pleas,
on the 25th, that there would be no fur
ther litigation, as the differences between
Mr.. and Mrs. Deems had been settled
amicably.
NJ. LAUR, the author of the Boulan ger
letters, promises to make public the names
of the eighty;fo Generals who are alleged
to have pledged their support to General
Boulanger in coup d'etat, after his duel
with M. Cassasnac.
PARTICULARS Of the failure of the
Saranac Iron Company of Saranac, N. Y,
have been received. Bowen & Signor, the
proprietors of the company, have made an
assignment. The liabilities are estimated
from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900 and the assets at
about $4,000. Their property is mortgaged
for $125, 900.
A DISPATCH from Nizhnee-Novgorod, on
the 25sh, stated that a large naphtha
spring, containing 100000 pools of narh-
tina, at Balachna, twenty miles northwest
of Nizhnee-Novgorod, was on fire, and that
the flames had spread to the structures in
closing other springs.
JOSEPH VAN HEYST, the Holland banker,
whose wife recently fed to this country
with Jules Van Dooren, $4,000 florins of
Van Heyst's money and his three-year-old
child, arrived at New York on the 25th, on
the steamship Aurania. He will go to
Easton, Pa, where the fugitives We're last
heard from.
AN explosion occurred in blast-furnace
works at Friedenshutt, Silesia, on the 25th,
with very disastrous results. In the works
there were twenty-five steam boilers, one
or more of which exploded, demolishing
the others and killing two and wounding
more or less severely twenty persons. Fire
broke out in the building wrecked by the
explosion and extended to others, consum-
ing six houses and shops.
ANNAPOLIS ROYAL, N. S., the oldest town
in British America, is greatly excited over
the discovery, few days ago, Of large
quantity of scrip and coin. The find was
made in an old cellar dug by the French
There was over S., 900 worth of Continental
scrip, dated 1860, and the coins were either
German or Russian. The gold was under
meath house owned by ex-Sherif Bonnet.